Germán Elías Berríos FMedSci, FRCPsych (17 April 1940) is a professor of Psychiatry at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom.
[citation needed] He read Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology (PPP) at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was a scholar by examination and obtained a BA in 1970.
[2] His research has centred on the psychiatric complications of neurological disease and the history, structure and epistemological power of descriptive psychopathology.
[4] Berrios has published 14 books and more than 400 papers on the clinical, historical and philosophical aspects of neuropsychiatry,[5] descriptive psychopathology, and the hermeneutics of mental symptoms.
[12] In 2008 the Ramón y Cajal Award by the International Neuropsychiatric Association;[4] Archived 12 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine; in 2010 he was made Honorary Fellow by the Royal College of Psychiatrists of the UK,[13] in 2016 he received a Life-Achievement Award from La Sociedad Española de Psicogeriatría,[14] and the Honorio Delgado Medal from the Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental Honorio Delgado – Hideyo Noguchi, Perú.